Who Owns Commodore? The Retro PC Brand Still Exists, but a Lot Has Changed

20 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by theanonymousone
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9 Comments

Taikhoom10

3 hours ago

I mean, I wish Commodore was still around, a lot of nostalgia, but what do you expect, when your only differentiation is price, and you do not build a structure around your business that creates customer lock-in in some way, it becomes hard to create sustainable profits and stick around.

With Windows and Intel locking down the enterprise, you really had to create some kind of premium brand like Apple did, not focus on the low end.

simonh

3 hours ago

The Amiga was hardly a low end computer. I bought a 500 in 1989 and they were wonderful machines. The high end systems could run Unix and were used in commercial video production. You just can't compete with platform effects though, and there wasn't a gap in the market between the Venn diagrams of the PC, Apple and Linux behemoths. In the end not even Sun could make a go of it.

guidedlight

an hour ago

I think what was meant is that Amiga’s market share was predominantly in the home computer space. And its software catalog consisted primarily of video games rather than productivity software. In that sense it was low end.

It was wedged between game consoles and PC’s, and it eventually couldn’t compete against neither.

rjrjrjrj

an hour ago

There was the Video Toaster, but that was a small business at the time compared to desktop publishing. And unlike Apple's immensely profitable LaserWriter, the Toaster was a 3rd party product.

Taikhoom10

an hour ago

yeah basically stuck in the middle market, a pre iminent death.

blkhawk

3 hours ago

this links to one of these stupid endlessly loading back-button injecting garbage sites. Is this slop?

simonh

2 hours ago

It's Boy Genius Report, which used to be decent but was sold to a media conglomerate, with predictable results as you can see.